The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

Edited by Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs General editor: George C. Edwards III

Description

Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens. This Oxford Handbook takes on the "big questions" about public opinion and the media--both empirical and normative--focusing on current debates and social scientific research. Bringing together the thinking of a team of leading academic experts, its chapters provide a cutting assessment of contemporary research on public opinion, the media, and their interconnections. Emphasizing changes in the mass media and communications technology--the vast number of cable channels, websites and blogs, and the new social media, which are changing how news about political life is collected and conveyed--they describe the evolving information interdependence of the media and public opinion. In addition, The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media reviews the wide range of influences on public opinion, including the processes by which information communicated through the media can affect the public. It describes what has been learned from the latest research in psychology, genetics, and studies of the impact of gender, race and ethnicity, economic status, education and sophistication, religion, and generational change on a wide range of political attitudes and perceptions. The Handbook includes extensive discussion of how public opinion and mass media coverage are studied through survey research and increasingly through experiments using the latest technological advances.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

Edited by Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs General editor: George C. Edwards III

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction 1. Informational Interdependence: Public Opinion and the Media in the New Communications Era, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro2. The Internet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship, W. Russell Neuman, Bruce Bimber, and Matthew Hindman3. A Possible Next Frontier in Political Communication Research: Merging the Old with the New, Brian J. Gaines and James H. KuklinskiPart Two: The Media Foundations4. Tocqueville's Interesting Error: On Journalism and Democracy, Michael Schudson5. Partisans, Watchdog, and Entertainers: The Press for Democracy and Its Limits, Katherine Ann Brown and Todd Gitlin6. The News Industry, Doris A. Graber and Gregory G. Holyk7. What's Newsworthy: A View from the 21st Century, Marion R. Just8. Soft News and The Four Oprah Effects, Matthew A. Baum and Angela JamisonMeasurement and Method9. Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies, Jennifer Jerit and Jason Barabas10. The Future of Political Communication Research: Online Panels and Experimentation, Lynn Vavreck and Shanto IyengarEffects11. Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers, James Druckman and Dennis Chong12. Issue Framing, Thomas E. Nelson13. Campaigning, Debating, Advertising, Bradford H. Bishop and D. Sunshine Hillygus14. Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement, Patricia Moy and Muzammil M. Hussain15. The Effect of Media on Public Knowledge, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Bruce W. Hardy16. News Polls: Constructing an Engaged Public, W. Lance BennettPart Three: Public Opinion Foundations17. Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion, John G. Gunnell18. Constructing Public Opinion: A Brief History of Survey Research, Michael X. Delli Carpini19. Critical Perspectives on Public Opinion, Susan HerbstMeasurement20. The Accuracy of Opinion Polling and Its Relation to Its Future, Michael Traugott21. Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response, Adam J. Berinsky22. Instrument Design: Question Form, Wording and Context Effects, George Franklin BishopMicro-Level Frameworks23. Political Cognition and Public Opinion, Charles S. Taber24. Emotion and Public Opinion, Ted Brader, George E. Marcus, and KristynL. Miller25. Prospect Theory and Risk Assessment, Rose McDermott26. Connecting the Social and Biological Bases of Public Opinion, Carolyn L. Funk27. Attitude Organization in the Mass Public: The Impact of Ideology and Partisanship, William G. JacobyThe Pluralism of Public Opinion28. Political Socialization: Ongoing Questions and New Directions, Laura Stoker and Jackie Bass29. On the Complex and Varied Political Effects of Gender, Leonie Huddy and Erin Cassese30. The Contours of Black Public Opinion, Frederick C. Harris31. Latino Public Opinion, Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Seung-Jin Jang32. Asian American Public Opinion, Jane Junn, Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle Wong33. A Vine with Many Branches: Religion and Public Opinion Research (, Aimee E. Barbeau, Carin Robinson, and Clyde Wilcox34. Class Differences in Social and Political Attitudes in the United States, Leslie McCall and Jeff Manza35. Knowledge, Sophistication, and Issue Publics, Vincent Hutchings and Spencer PistonPart Four: Issues and Politics 36. Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being, Jason Barabas37. Race, Public Opinion, the Media, Taeku Lee and Nicole Willcoxon38. Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues, Patrick J. Egan39. Big Government and Public Opinion, Costas Panagopoulos and Robert Y. ShapiroForeign Policy and Security40. Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Media: Toward an Integrative Theory, Douglas D. Foyle41. Public Opinion, the Media, and War, John Mueller42. The Media, Public Opinion, and Terrorism, Brigitte L. Nacos and Yaeli Bloch-ElkonPart Five: Democracy Under Stress 43. The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics, Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

Edited by Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs General editor: George C. Edwards III

Author Information

Robert Y. Shapiro is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and served as acting director of Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy during 2008-2009. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Shapiro specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods.

Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He has published 11 books and dozens of articles on elections, legislative and presidential politics, elections and public opinion, and a range of public policies including Health Care Reform and American Politics (OUP 2010) and Politicians Don't Pander (with Robert Y. Shapiro).

Contributors:

Jason Barabas, Associate Professor of Political Science, Florida State UniversityAimee Barbeau, Ph.D. Candidate in Government, Georgetown UniversityJackie Bass, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyMatthew A. Baum, Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public Policy and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityW. Lance Bennett, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, University of Washington, SeattleAdam Berinsky, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBruce Bimber, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa BarbaraGeorge Franklin Bishop, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Public Opinion and Survey Research, University of CincinnatiYaeli Bloch-Elkon, Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Political Science and Communications, Bar Ilan University; Associate Research Scholar, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA), Bar Ilan University and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia UniversityTed Brader, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan; Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social ResearchKatherine Ann Brown, Ph.D. Candidate in Communications, Columbia UniversityErin Cassese, Professor of Political Science, West Virginia UniversityDennis Chong, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityRodolfo O. de la Garza, Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia UniversityMichael X. Delli Carpini, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania James N. Druckman, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern UniversityPatrick J. Egan, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy, New York UniversityDouglas C. Foyle, Associate Professor of Government, Wesleyan UniversityCarolyn L. Funk, Associate Professor, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBrian J.Gaines, Associate Professor of Political Science, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of IllinoisTodd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, and Director of the Ph. D. Program in Communications, Columbia UniversityDoris Graber, Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago; Founding Editor of Political CommunicationJohn G. Gunnell, Professor Emeritus, University at Albany, SUNY; Research Associate, University of California-DavisKathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor and Director of Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of PennsylvaniaBruce W. Hardy, Senior Research Analyst, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania Fredrick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society, Columbia UniversitySusan Herbst, Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chief Academic Officer, University System of GeorgiaSunshine Hillygus, Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University; Director, Duke Initiative on Survey MethodologyMatthew Hindman, Assistant Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington UniversityGregory G. Holyk, Visiting Professor of Politics, Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, Washington and Lee University; Survey Consultant, Chicago Council on Global AffairsLeonie Huddy, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Survey Research, Stony Brook University, SUNYMuzammil M. Hussain, Doctoral Student in Communication, University of WashingtonVincent L. Hutchings, Professor of Political Science and Research Professor at Institute for Social Research, University of MichiganShanto Iyengar, Professor of Communication and Political Science, Stanford UniversityLawrence R. Jacobs, Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, University of MinnesotaWilliam G. Jacoby, Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University; Research Scientist and Director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of MichiganAngela Jamison, Visiting Scholar of Sociology, University of MichiganSeung-Jin Jang, Lecturer in Discipline, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia UniversityJennifer Jerit, Associate Professor of Political Science, Florida State UniversityJane Junn, Professor of Political Science, University of Southern CaliforniaMarion Just, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College; Associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityJames H. Kuklinski, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTaeku Lee, Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor in School of Law, University of California-Berkeley Jeff Manza, Professor and Department Chair of Sociology, New York UniversityGeorge E. Marcus, Professor of Political Science, Williams CollegeLeslie McCall, Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern UniversityRose McDermott, Professor of Political Science, Brown UniversityKristyn L. Miller, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University of MichiganPatricia Moy, Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of WashingtonJohn Mueller, Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center; Professor of Political Science, Ohio State UniversityBrigitte L. Nacos, Journalist and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia UniversityThomas E. Nelson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University-ColumbusW. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology in Communication Studies and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of MichiganCostas Panagopoulos, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy, Fordham UniversitySpencer Piston, Ph.D. student in Political Science, University of MichiganKarthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-RiversideCarin Robinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hood CollegeMichael Schudson, Professor of Communication, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia UniversityRobert Y. Shapiro, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Resesarch (ISERP), Columbia University Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-BerkeleyCharles Taber, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Research in Political Behavior, Stony Brook University, SUNYMichael W. Traugott, Professor of Communication Studies and Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of MichiganLynn Vavreck, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of Campaigns, and Co-Pl of the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, University of California-Los Angeles Clyde Wilcox, Professor of Government, Georgetown UniversityNicole Willcoxon, Ph.D. Candidate and Chancellor's Diversity Fellow in Political Science, University of California-BerkeleyJanelle Wong, Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

Edited by Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs General editor: George C. Edwards III

Reviews and Awards

"A tremendously valuable resource for scholars and students alike. This Handbook offers thoughtful and sophisticated analyses of a rapidly changing media environment. In an age when mass media and interpersonal communication are blurring together, citizens serve not just as media consumers, but as producers, distributors, and commentators as well. This 'informational interdependence' is examined here with subtlety and sophistication by the world's leading scholars of politics and media."--Martin Gilens, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University

"The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a grandly ambitious undertaking. Success depends on coverage, scholarship, and editorial command. Measured by these standards, the Handbooks will be immensely valuable to the discipline. The right topics are analyzed by knowledgeable scholars and managed by experienced editors. A five-star project that will influence teaching and research for decades."--Charles O. Jones, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison